today in brief
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Friday, July 22, 1983
RIOT POLICE in Mexico City charged thousands of demonstrators, breaking bones with billy clubs and bowling bodies over with water hoses. Page
DEMONSTRATIONS PROTESTING the American testing of the cruise missile in Canada are scheduled Saturday across the country.
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PRINCE ANDREW is on a private trip to Canada, but can’t avoid the crowds and media coverage he doesn’t want. Page
NHL GOVERNORS have conditionally approved Harry Ornest’s purchase of the St. Louis Blues. Page
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'Grandma just made a tidy profit on some of your old report cards.”
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City, B.C............. ...... 3,6.7
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Sadrack says
Predictions are for a 30-per-cent chance of rain today but only 10 per cent Saturday
The total sunshine recorded Thursday was 7.2 hours and 2.0 millimetres of rain fell.
The high Thursday was 20 and the low overnight 7. The predicted high today is 21. the overnight low 9 and the high Saturday 23. The high a year ago today was 16 and the low 10 in a day that had 3.7 hours of sunshine despite 25.8 millimetres of rain.
Sunset today is 9:26 p.m ; sunrise Saturday
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EAST INDIAN MILLWORKER
Rights ruling appealed
by BOH ROWLANDS Staff reporter BC Timber will appeal to the B.C. Supreme Court a recertt Human Bights Commission ruling that ordered the company to hire and pay wage compensation to an East Indian man who applied for a job three years ago at their sawmill near Vanderhoof.
The company, which is owned by the B.C. Resources Investment Corp . said in a news release it is challenging the decision on several points of law.
An independent board ruled July 4 there was intentional racial discrimination against Bhupinder Singh Dhaliwal by a company official at Plateau Mills and that the company discriminated against him indirectly by saying he had no proficiency in English Tony Hicklin. a University of B.C. law professor who was chairman of the inquiry, said he formed the impression “that had Mr Dhaliwal been a white deaf mute, the company would have had no difficulty in accommodating him.”
Hicklin also said he was satisfied that Dhaliwal’s "race or place of origin" was a reason he was not hired. Competence in English was not a legitimate requirement for a laborer’s job in a sawmill, he said.
The board also said company statements Dhaliwal had no experience were irrelevant for an entry-level job.
The company will ask the court whether an employer has a duty* to accommodate non-English speaking employees, whether previous work experience is a bona-fide job qualification and whether intent is required for indirect discrimination, company spokesman Graham Dallas said Dhaliwal started working at Plateau on July 11 after Hicklin ruled the sawmill personnel manager was wrong in refusing to hire Dhaliwal He will continue to work there — at least until the court case is settled.
However, the back wages issue has not been worked out yet, Dallas said
'WAITING WITH FEAR'
Welfare firings to be "humane7
bv Canadian Press VICTORIA — Staff with the Human Resources Ministry are living in fear as they wait to hear who will lose their job under the British Columbia government's controversial restraint program, says New Democrat Emery Barnes.
Barnes, the Human Resources critic from Vancouver Centre, urged Minister Grace McCarthy to say who of her 6.000 employees will be fired and “who has a reprieve for the time being.”
“People are currently waiting in tension and with fear of the future.” he told the B.C. legislature Thursday, noting that two meetings with regional directors to schedule terminations have been cancelled.
“The staff has the right to know whether they are going to have a job or not.”
The ministry is expected to fire more than 350 people under Bill 3, the proposed Public Sector Restraint Act that enables public sector employers to fire any of their 250,000 employees without cause once their union contracts expire
McCarthy accused Barnes of promoting "fear, uneasiness, anguish and anxiety in the public service of this province.”
“It is that kind of statement and because of that kind of politicking and the firing up of emotions that is being done by those members (of the New Democratic Partyi that there is that uneasiness.”
McCarthy said the reductions w ill be made in a "orderly. humane and proper way.”
“We will not be firing people through the media as was done during the NDP administration, when people were fired over television set,” McCarthy told the legislature McCarthy was referring to the incident when NDP Lead er Dave Barrett fired the education commissioner on television.
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“It will be done in an orderly manner and according to our collective bargaining process.”
Barnes told McCarthy employees should be informed now as to when the axe will fall because “these people are under a great deal of pressure, they are unable to perform their duties and it's a pretty sad state of affairs in that department."
More 400 government employees were informed July 7, when the bill was presented to the legislature, that their services would not be needed after Oct. 31 The government has vowed to cut (he provincial civil service, which now stands at 44.000, by 4,000 jobs before the end of the fiscal year.
Meanwhile. Premier Hill Bennett agreed Thursday to meet with the Employers’ Council of B C to discuss concerns about the potential damage his government’s public sector restraint program may do to labor relations in the province.
But while Bennett was willing to talk with the employers. government employees occupying the Tranquille Centre for the mentally handicapped near Kamloops were rebuffed in their bid for a high-level meeting today with Ministry of Human Resources officials to discuss the impending closure of Tranquille.
In response, about 70 members of the B.C. Government Employees’ Union expanded their occupation and took over the 16-person fire station at the institution Already occupied were the cafeteria and two administrative offices.
Bennett also offered to go on television to discuss his legislative program. But he rejected an invitation to v television debate with John Fryer, former chief negotiator of the B.C. Government Employees’ Union
Moose slaughter feared
by JOHN SPILKER Staff reporter
Many moose will probably be killed during winter months when the Northeast Coal trains start to roll unless industry and governments spend money to find a solution, says a Ministry of Environment biologist.
“We anticipate a heck of a loss of moose around the new line,” said wildlife biologist Ken Child of Prince George.
This problem could also lead to the derailment of coal trains along the new line from Anzac to Tumbler Ridge, an area where the animals have seldom encountered man let alone trains, he added.
“I’ve had trainmen call me to say they can’t ride their trains anymore — The odor of the trains, (coveredi with all the blood and guts, was just
tives, install special flashing lights and sirens and put up fences in areas frequented by moose.
Despite all the research on northeast coal project, no one ever tackled the problem of moose collisions with trains, he said “We’re loosing a lot of deer, moose, elk and other types of wildlife," he said However, hunters are the ones
who ultimately pay the price for the loss of these animals.
“It’s just one of those things that has happened and is going to continue to happen The only way that we can compensate for it is to reduce recreational opportunities, vshich is to reduce the number of licences that will be available for hunters to hunt for certain types of moose in some ;ireas." lie said
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four derailments (in 1982) because moose carcasses were getting lodged in the train wheels.”
Child discussed the loss of moose along rail lines in B C. at the three-day North American Moose Conference which ended in Prince George Thursday.
More than 1.000 moose are killed by trains during winters of heavy snow falls, including the winter of 1982, he said Contrary to popular belief, the moose are seldom trapped between snow banks along the ploughed tracks. Instead, the animals prefer to walk along the tracks, often between the two rails, because it snow is shallow which makes walking easier, he said Surprisingly, when a train approaches. the moose are reluctant to get out of the way.
Child said he observed from an airplane a moose which even tried to charge an approaching train. The animal was flung to the side of the rail bed. got up, and then charged passing cars before it gave up its fight against the iron horse About half an hour later, the moose returned to the rail line, he added “We don’t know what the solutions are,” he complained. “The only way you learn is to try something and see if it works "
Amoung the suggestions made so far is to paint antlers on the locomo-
by Associated Press WARSAW — Freed of martial law after 19 months. Poles celebrated their national holiday today — but under a government with greatly strenghtened powers to suppress dissent
Premier Gen Wojciech Jaruzels-ki. the Communist party chief, told a national television audience Thursday that martial law was being rescinded today because of what he called a return to tranquility after months of unrest But Jaruzelski's speech came after the Communist-controlled Sejm (parliament) granted the government emergency power to suspend civil liberties and passed legislation
Pulp union okays strike
Citizen news services VANCOUVER - Members of the Pulp, Paper and Woodworkers Union have voted 74.5 per cent in favor of a strike.
A muon spokesman said (hi1 strike vote, taken earlier this week, involv ed 5,600 workers at nine pulp mills in the province The Canadian Paperworkers Union represents workers at the province’s eight other mills The last contract for the Pulp. Paper and Woodworkers Union expired June 30 The PPWC represents Prince George workers at Prince George Pulp and Paper Ltd. and Intercontinental Pulp (o. Ltd.
to strengthen the police and tighten restrictions on workers, students and academics.
“Anarchy will not return to Poland." said Jaruzelski. dressed in lull military uniform “Any attempts at anti-state activity will be fcurbed no less unswervingly than during martial law "
Jaruzelski decreed martial law Dec 13. 1981, to crush 16 months of strikes and political challenges bv the independent Solidarity union Solidarity was suspended under martial law and formally outlawed last October, although the union and its leader. Lech Walesa, remain popular.
The rescinding of the decree coincides with Poland's national day, and was accompanied by a limited amnesty freeing about 800 martial-law violators. But the amnesty does not extend to seven fugitive members of Solidarity or others considered a political threat to the Communists.
“Organizers of counter-revolution should harbor no illusions whatsov-er," Jaruzelski said “The lilting of martial law is not tantamount to the cessation of struggling with evil and crime. Law enforcement organs should hit hard at tins dangerous fringe."
Jaruzelski’s warning came less than a month before the third anniversary of Solidarity, formed during Gdansk shipyard strikes in August, 1980 Walesa and underground Solidarity leaders have hint ed there will bi anniversary protests.
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Talk about being all up in knots before a show — Sugar, a four-year-old Maltese terrier, has taken being uptight to the extreme. Actually, she has her fur tied so she can run about without getting it dirty and tangled before being shown during the Northern Interi-Showtime or Kennel Club’s obedience trials and dog show at Prince George
Exhibition Grounds today until Sunday. She is owned by Elaine Mitchell, Of Sherwood Park, Alta. Citizen photo by Brock Ciablo
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